The Role of Gender in Hedda Gabler and The Importance of Being Earnest
Discuss the "performance" of gender in the plays using one character from each play as examples. Gender plays a great role in both plays Hedda Gabler and The importance of Being Ernest. In both plays there are women playing extremely masculine roles. In Henrik Isben's play, Hedda Gabler, it is Hedda herself and in Oscar Wilde's play, The Importance of Being Earnest, it is Lady Bracknell. They both have characteristics that a man should have had in their time period.…...
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Rebellion in Hedda Gabler and Blood Relations
Plays written by Henrik Ibsen and Sharon Pollock provoke Freudian thoughts, namely, the essence or motivations behind our human existence. Henrik Ibsen boldly stated "our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves" (as cited in Lahr, 2009). Ibsen's claim accuses the conscious human-self by stating we, as humans, lack autonomy over our own actions, as we are subconsciously driven by the desire to fulfill a grim sense of expectations in our lives. This is…...
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By the Bog of Cats vs Hedda Gabler
Though written about a hundred years apart, By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr and Hedda Gabler by Henrick Ibsen are very similar in that they both end on the death of a main character. In By the Bog of Cats, Hester kills her daughter Josie and in Hedda Gabler, Hedda kills herself. Though there is a level of sadness in both these deaths, Josie's is the much more tragic of the two largely because Hedda is a very…...
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler Play Analysis
The Victorians adhere to the rules so when Hedda Gabler, cunning and cold, appeared on stage for the first time, the play was not well received amongst male viewers. For the female audiences, however, they related to Hedda and her predicament. They too felt claustrophobic in their own home, they too had husbands who ignored them, and they too wanted to break the tradition one way or another. Through Hedda’s manipulation of others and her eventual death, Hedda Gabler by…...
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